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Oct 29 2007

Jailbreak your iPhone or iPod touch with a single tap

Caveman iphone hack

This new one tap hack is so easy a caveman can do it. It opens your iPhone or iPod touch and installs Installer.app so you can add any 3rd party apps of your choice. This is the by far the easiest way to add 3rd party apps to your iPhone or iPod touch. Here’s how.
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Oct 26 2007

iPhone Gmail now with free IMAP!

Gmail

This week, Google rolled out free IMAP service to all Gmail users, making its web email product the very best of breed. Here is a great tutorial on how to set up Gmail IMAP for iPhone. Geeks already know exactly why this is so incredibly great, but for those of you who don’t know what this means, let us explain. IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) offers true message syncing between an email client and the mail server. This is especially useful if you access your Gmail account from more than one email client, like say, your iPhone and your work or home computer.
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Oct 26 2007

Don’t lose your touch - an iPod touch tip

Sean Bonner ipod touch

We love the form factor of the iPod touch, but damn, they sure are slippery in the pocket. This is not good if you’ve spent all your ducats on your shiny new device and have nothing left over for a decent iPod case. Skateboarder, Sean Bonner, learned this painful lesson firsthand after losing his touch in a cab; it quietly slid right out of his pocket. Surely, the upstanding citizen that recovered Sean’s touch will return it, but until then, Sean decided to prevent his next iPod touch from getting away.
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Oct 25 2007

Sound off to the coolest iPhone accessory

Jawbone headset

The iPhone is the most advanced consumer mobile device on the planet and it deserves to be accessorized as such. Don’t disgrace the iPhone’s aesthetics with some butt-ugly ear buds that came bundled with your nephew’s Leapfrog. No, you need something along the lines of the Vibe Duo ear buds, or better yet, go wireless with the Bluetooth-enabled, noise-reducing iPhone earpiece from Jawbone. This baby will have your Treo-toting, Jabra-talking colleagues wishing they looked less like the Borg and more like Blade Runner.
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Oct 24 2007

Like the Apple web app directory, only easier

Wakoopa

Wakoopa is yet another entry into the starting-to-get-crowded space of iphone & ipod touch web app directories. It seems like a new one pops up every week or so, and we even stopped mentioning them because they are all starting to look the same. The last one to make a splash was the recently released web app directory at Apple.com. Wakoopa is a bit different though, and in a good way, so it’s worth a little face time here.
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Oct 23 2007

What does a hacked iPhone or iPod touch look like?

Hacked iPhone screenshot

It could look like pretty much anything, even The Matrix (as shown here), it all depends on the owner. The look and feel of the hacked iPhone and iPod touch interface is completely customizable, not to mention you can install any combination of 3rd party apps on it which are all available through the latest Installer.app. Take a peak at what current users are doing with their hacked devices at this great Flickr pool Continue reading »

Oct 22 2007

iPod touch tips for business users

iPod touch business tool

Captains of industry take note, the iPod touch seriously gets down to business. In fact, the iPod touch has so many business critical features that you could even expense it and write it off in April. But first, you’ll need to convince your CFO that you can’t do your job without your iPod touch. How? Create a list of ways in which you use your iPod touch to do business. Here’s a few to get you started.
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Oct 20 2007

iPhone hack - Run 3rd party apps with the new Installer.app 3.0

Installer.app 3.0

Installer.app, the leading hack for putting 3rd party apps on your iPhone, has been updated to version 3.0. Apps are now organized into sections making them easier to locate. Installer.app also has added an “Update All” feature along with an improved back-end to manage packaging. The new Installer.app auto detects your firmware version and only displays the 3rd party apps that will run on your iPhone.
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